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gentile

[jen-tahyl] / ˈdʒɛn taɪl /


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Jesenská, a gentile, was a Czechoslovak citizen living in Vienna, and when she received Kafka’s permission to translate him into Czech the two began a passionate correspondence.

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 2026

Noah was initially written to be a lot more like Tikhman, leaving Levitan unsure whether the stakes between a Jew and gentile who fall in love were high enough for a TV audience.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 28, 2024

Now, because it occurs around the biggest holiday here for our gentile friends, we make a much bigger deal out of it.

From Salon Dec. 14, 2023

“We reaffirm that Jew and gentile, we are one nation under God; that black and white, we are one nation indivisible; that Republican and Democrat, we are all Americans,” he said.

From Washington Times Jul. 3, 2023

He also made arrangements with his gentile friend Wojek to sell a few of his fine suits on the black market.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

He removed the armband identifying him as a Jew and lined up before dawn with the gentiles to seek bread.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 2, 2026

But when gentiles are cast as Golda Meir or Mrs. Maisel or Ruth Bader Ginsburg, there is little blowback.

From New York Times Feb. 17, 2022

Moreover, their devotion paid off materially; after converting to Catholicism in mass baptisms, Frank’s followers take on Polish names and prosper as gentiles, with several even entering the nobility.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 3, 2022

A final example of how Roth's white gentiles talk about Blacks can be found in the autofictional novel "Deception."

From Salon Feb. 7, 2021

In fact, of the two hundred fifty workers Schindler hired in 1940, only seven were Jews; the rest were Polish gentiles.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson




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